Fence post



c. K. JACKSON June 7, 1927.

FENCEPOST Original Filed Dec. 25, 1925 llll-lll ATTORNEYS Patented June 7, 1927.

UNITED STATES CHARLES Kv JACKSON," OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

FENCE Pos'r.

Original application filed December 23, 1925, Serial No. 77,819. Divided and this application filed June 28, 1926. Serial No. 119,026.

My present invention relates generally to fence posts and 'more particularly to metal fence posts for especial use in a type of fence disclosed and claimed in my co-pending application filed December 23, 192-5, Serial Number 77 ,319, now Patent No. 1,6.J3,873 of which the present application is a division;

The primary object of my invention is the provision of a post which while capable of being placed or set in the usual. manner within apost hole or embedded in concrete, is especially adapted to be driven into the ground. 7

A further object is the provision of a post which may be rolled or otherwise suitably formed from a single sheet of metal, which will be stiff and strong, and whose shape and surface area offers unusual resistance against loosening and accidental displacement.

In the accompanyingdrawing which illustrates my present invention and forms a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a side view illustrating the practical use of the post;

Figure 2 is a detail front view of the post;

Figure 3 is a side view thereof;

Figure 4 is a top plan view;

Figure 5 is an enlarged side view of the upper end of the post;

Figure 6 is a similar front, 7

Figure 7 is an elevation of the upper portion of the blank; and

Figure 8 is a top plan view of two posts in a fence formation.

Referring now to these figures and particularly to Figuresl and 8, my improved fence post is, in practice, utilized in connection with a fence of panel; construction, the panels being shown in dotted lines at 10 between posts 11. It is to be understood, however, that the post may be used with ordinary fencing and this is to be borne in mind in the following description.

According to my invention the post 11 is rolled or otherwlse formed from a single view looking at the section of sheet metal or other suitable material as shown in part at 12 in Figure 7, into an S-shapc in-cross section, so as to present a strong. rigid and durable post by virtue of the three adjacent webs 13, 14 and 15. T hcse webs furthermore form between them oppositely opening side channels 16 adapted to receive the ends of the panels which complete the fence. For this purpose the several webs are provided adjacent to their upper ends with alined openings '17 to receive a bolt 18, the latter extending also through the upper bars of the panels in practice.

Each of the posts also has a lower opening 19 in its front web 13, so positioned to act both as a guide or gauge in connection with thesurface of the ground in planting the post, and as an engaging point for a pryin bar when removing the postas seen in dbtted lines in Figure 3. Each post also preferably has at its upper end a grooxe 20 between its front and central webs 13 and 14: and has its front web vertically slitt'ed as at 21' to form a tongue 22 between the slits. In this way a strand of barbed wire indicated in dotted lines in Figure 6 may be strung along the several posts of a row and effectively held along the top of thefence, by bending the tongues 22 inwardly thereover.

It is obvious from the foregoing that the construction proposed by my invention is CHARLES K. JACKSON. 

